Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.